Maree Rizk and her husband, Albert, were coming back from a month-long holiday in Europe when the jet crashed, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew, near Donetsk on Thursday. The Boeing 777 was downed by a ground-to-air missile, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

In March, Mann’s brother Rodney Burrows was traveling with his wife, Mary, on MH370, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, when it disappeared over the Indian Ocean. Though no trace of the jet has been found, it is believed all on board died when the oxygen ran out.

At that time, Mann was one of the Burrows family members who spoke publicly about their grief. The new tragedy has revived that pain, her brother Greg Burrows told the Associated Press: “It’s brought everyone, everything back,” he said. ”It’s just … ripped our guts again.”

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